Roads taken : the professorial life, scholarship in place, and the public good /

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Uniform title:Roads taken (2014)
Imprint:Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (241 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230077
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Other authors / contributors:Epp, Roger, editor.
Spellman, Bill, editor.
Schlosser, Milton, cover designer.
Wheeler, Teresa, cover designer.
ISBN:9781612481050
1612481051
9781612481043
1612481043
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Other form:Print version: Roads taken (2014). Roads taken : the professorial life, scholarship in place, and the public good. Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, ©2014 vii, 231 pages 9781612481043
Table of Contents:
  • A place where ideas matter / Joel Sipress, History, University of Wisconsin/Superior
  • Detours, intersections, and a few bumps in the road / Therese Seibert, Sociology, Keene State College
  • The outsiders : undergraduate research in a liberal arts institution / Dylan Fischer, Ecology, The Evergreen State College
  • How everything influences everything else : the strange and wonderful journey to an integrated academic life / Jeffrey Trawick-Smith, Education, Eastern Connecticut State University
  • Notes from an academic odd couple / Lee Rozelle and Jill Wicknick, English, Biology, Montevallo University
  • "'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be" / Gary Towsley, Mathematics, State University of New York/Geneseo
  • A kid for life / Quan Tran, Mathematics, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
  • Dr. Monograph : or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the liberal arts / Janet Schrunk Ericksen, English, University of Minnesota/Morris
  • Music, the liberal arts, and rural identity : the not-so-straight road / Milton Schlosser, Music, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus
  • What have I done?! : a Renaissance art historian finds her way in the rural Midwest / Julia Delancey, Art, Truman State University
  • How one becomes what one is / Jonathan R. Cohen, Philosophy, University of Maine/Farmington
  • Neither here nor there : testing the boundaries of place and pedagogy / Ellen Holmes Pearson, History, University of North Carolina/Asheville
  • Finding the road back to the "last good job in America" / Kathleen Fine-Dare, Anthropology and Gender/Women's Studies, Fort Lewis College
  • The liberal arts leave the ivory tower and enter the trenches / Robin Bates, English, St. Mary's College of Maryland.